Ashcombe
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: photograph taken 11 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1729203] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1993
Image Source: photograph taken 11 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1729205] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern (late-19thC?) font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1993
Image Source: photograph taken 11 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1729212] [accessed 28 February 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10334ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nectan
Church Patron Saints: St. Nectan [aka Nighton]
Church Location: Ashcombe, Devon EX7 0QD
Country Name: England
Location: Devon, South West
Directions to Site: Located off the A380, 5 km E of Chudleigh, 12 km S of Exeter
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1259?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Early English
Listed in Lysons (1806-1822) as a baptismal font "among many of circular form and an early age, enriched with various carved mouldings, wreaths, scrolls, or foliage". Stabb (1908- ) gives 1259 as the date for the consecration of the church, but does not mention a font in his entry for this parish. The present font is modern, probably of the 1885 refurbishment referred to in a plaque in this church; the church had been restored in the 1820s, but the font appears to be late-19th century rather than early in that century. [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of the medieval font seen by Lysons;like the church itself, it was probably of the mid-13th century].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.605592,
-3.538175
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 36′ 20.13″ N,
3° 32′ 17.43″ W
UTM: 30U 461917 5606105
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916
